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What Makes Grass Grow in The Desert is an ongoing, explorative project by photographer James Bannister aiming to reveal the cracks in Las Vegas’ facade of success and glamour. James uses photography to “expose the gap between what we would like people to see and the image that we actually project,” a gap that Diane Arbus once described as “the gap between intention and effect”. In terms of Las Vegas, James uses his camera to explore the disparity between the vision that the casino hotel owners want us to see, the sparseness of the natural environment and its poorer communities that tend to inhabit these areas.

We’ve previously championed the work of Daniel Fletcher, a master of curating shapes together in a way that make you feel fuzzy and warm with their considered simplicity. Daniel has started to gradually step away from illustration transferring his work to canvas, but with the same prepossessing qualities of his older work.

In a loose reportage style, photographer Brian Finke has captured the art of pasta making in five different cities in Italy for gourmet food magazine Saveur. From small, family-run businesses where pasta is made in the streets to large scale, factory production, the contrasts in the series are both delicious and fascinating.

Illustration for educational books has become ever more inventive in recent years, diversifying a medium that has vast creative potential, and Wide Eyed Edition’s recent release Illumanatomy is symbolic of this shift. The large format book is filled cover to cover with full bleed, intricate, three-colour illustrations by Milan-based duo Carnovsky depicting the human body in three layers. Using a set of lenses that come with the book, you can see the skeleton (through the red lens), the muscles (through the green lens) and the organs (through blue) and learn facts about the details of each image. It uses a technique made famous by Carnovsky in 2010 for its RGB wallpaper that revealed different images under different lights.

Chris Ullens has directed a new music video for Orange Rex County AKA Alex O’Connor and his latest track Loving is Easy featuring Benny Sings. A stop-motion performance video, Chris was given just an image of a psychedelic living room for reference, which inspired the aesthetic of the film.

Recently, when we wrote about the graphic design portfolio of Tim Lindacher he mentioned his friend and fellow design student, Steffen Hotel. Intrigued, we snooped on Steffen’s work and were not disappointed with his portfolio, which includes a dedicated zine to Wolfgang Tillmans, work for Fount magazine (with some very pleasing moving posters), A Mag A Month and working at komma with his pal Tim.